Bradley-Terry Models in R
Contents | Introduction | Standard Bradley-Terry model | Example: Analysis of journal citations | Bias-reduced estimates | Abilities predicted by explanatory variables | 'Player-specific' predictor variables | Missing values | Order effect | More general (contest-specific) predictors | Ability scores | Residuals | Model search | Setting up the data | Contest-specific data | Non contest-specific data | Converting data from a 'wide' format | Converting data from the format required by the earlier BradleyTerry package | A list of the functions provided in BradleyTerry2 | Some final remarks | A note on the treatment of ties | A note on 'contest-specific' random effects | Acknowledgments | References